Very Important: Banana slugs find each other by following the slime trails they leave behind. Snail trail, slug mail — gastropods really can do it all. 💘 (Time lapse by our very own Curatorial Assistant Erica Ely!) | California Academy of Sciences

Banana Slugs (Ariolimax sp.) are impressively large terrestrial slugs known for their yellow coloring, but they can exist in a spectrum of shades from bright banana yellow, to greenish, to brown, to spotted, to almost black. Color can be an indication of subspecies, habitat, age, diet, light exposure, temperature, and moisture..Banana slugs are equipped with 4 sensory stalks, 2 eye stalks, and 2 chemical receptor “taste” stalks. They eat using a set of iron imbued scrapers known as a radula. The